fix(picker): raise the worker-thread dialog to the foreground on showing

The koffi redesign moved the dialog from a spawned child process (which
inherits a foreground-activation right from the spawning app) onto a worker
thread of the same process, so Windows shows the dialog without activating
it — it opens behind the app with a taskbar flash. The app has no native
HWND to hand the seam, so raise from the driver: on the 'showing' notice
(the worker posts it right before Show, before the dialog window exists),
attach this thread's input queue to the dialog thread's, call
SetForegroundWindow on its top-level window, and detach — retried on the
close cadence until the window appears, stopped on settle/abort/success,
never blocking the pick. Injectable seam mirrors closeThreadWindows; driver
tests pin the raise and its retry; the in-process note records the
mechanism (both languages, pairing re-recorded).
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Huanqi Cao
2026-08-04 00:09:13 +08:00
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The Windows directory picker's primary tier was a spawned PowerShell script arou
## Decision
`packages/host/directory-picker-native` now opens `IFileOpenDialog` (`FOS_PICKFOLDERS | FOS_FORCEFILESYSTEM | FOS_NOCHANGEDIR`) in-process through koffi — already a workspace dependency for the repo's other `win32.ts` surfaces — as the primary win32 tier. The COM conversation runs on a `worker_threads` worker so the modal `Show` never blocks the host event loop; the worker posts its native thread id before blocking, and the driver services aborts by re-posting `WM_CLOSE` to that thread's windows (`EnumThreadWindows`), terminating and unrefing the worker only when the close budget is exhausted (Node cannot interrupt native calls, so an unclosable worker must never hold the process open). The worker thread opts into the best thread DPI awareness the host accepts (`SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext`, cascading per-monitor-v2 → per-monitor → system-aware with the return value checked), a strict upgrade over the script's system-DPI ceiling; DPI stays a cosmetic best-effort — a host accepting none of them still gets the modern dialog rather than a downgrade to the fallback chain. The module split keeps coverage honest on every host: `win32-dialog-logic.ts` (pure sequencing) and `win32-dialog.ts` (driver) test against fakes anywhere; `win32-dialog-bindings.ts` tests against a mocked `koffi` COM world (the `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` technique); POSIX hosts run the real spawn plumbing to its koffi-load rejection; win32 hosts run a real open-and-abort-close smoke. That smoke lives in `processBoundTests`: under the threads pool a worker blocked in a native modal wedges pool teardown, while a fork contains it. The PowerShell chain (see the [DPI note](../bug-fix/2026-08-01-windows-picker-pwsh-dpi.md)) stays as the fallback tier, its trigger widened from `ENOENT` to any pwsh failure, which also closes the PowerShell 6 regression.
`packages/host/directory-picker-native` now opens `IFileOpenDialog` (`FOS_PICKFOLDERS | FOS_FORCEFILESYSTEM | FOS_NOCHANGEDIR`) in-process through koffi — already a workspace dependency for the repo's other `win32.ts` surfaces — as the primary win32 tier. The COM conversation runs on a `worker_threads` worker so the modal `Show` never blocks the host event loop; the worker posts its native thread id before blocking, and the driver services aborts by re-posting `WM_CLOSE` to that thread's windows (`EnumThreadWindows`), terminating and unrefing the worker only when the close budget is exhausted (Node cannot interrupt native calls, so an unclosable worker must never hold the process open). A window on a worker input queue would otherwise be shown without activation, so the driver also raises the dialog to the foreground once the worker reports `showing` — attaching input queues and calling `SetForegroundWindow`, retried on the close cadence until the window (created inside `Show`) exists. The worker thread opts into the best thread DPI awareness the host accepts (`SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext`, cascading per-monitor-v2 → per-monitor → system-aware with the return value checked), a strict upgrade over the script's system-DPI ceiling; DPI stays a cosmetic best-effort — a host accepting none of them still gets the modern dialog rather than a downgrade to the fallback chain. The module split keeps coverage honest on every host: `win32-dialog-logic.ts` (pure sequencing) and `win32-dialog.ts` (driver) test against fakes anywhere; `win32-dialog-bindings.ts` tests against a mocked `koffi` COM world (the `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` technique); POSIX hosts run the real spawn plumbing to its koffi-load rejection; win32 hosts run a real open-and-abort-close smoke. That smoke lives in `processBoundTests`: under the threads pool a worker blocked in a native modal wedges pool teardown, while a fork contains it. The PowerShell chain (see the [DPI note](../bug-fix/2026-08-01-windows-picker-pwsh-dpi.md)) stays as the fallback tier, its trigger widened from `ENOENT` to any pwsh failure, which also closes the PowerShell 6 regression.
## Alternatives considered